Comet Impact Page #7

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The President is expected to make an

official statement at six pm tomorrow,

where he is widely tipped to announce

the nuclear deflection option.

Around the world people of all faiths gather

in prayer and...

contemplation as the earth awaits its destiny.

Oh the return of the native! Where have you been,

we've been worried.

Have you seen Josh?

Yeah he's playing pool, is not a pretty sight.

We're gonna convince General Harris to

change his mind.

Well this might come in handy, sulphur results

from Rockall,

the levels are practically zero.

If the comet hits us there's no chance for

nuclear winter, the earth would survive.

Fantastic Brendan, we've got something

pretty great here too.

Hey... I wanna apologise to you, to all of you,

my behaviour was totally unacceptable,

I'm sorry I never intended to make

anybody look bad.

You made us all look bad.

- Did you see Brendan's report? - I did.

- What do you think?

- Is not enough on its own.

Oh Josh please, please, please...

Gibden-Bell A is held togethertoo weakly...

to be able to absorb the kind of energy thas

gonna be required to make a deflection work.

I think you know that Josh...

because if we fire those missiles up there

isjust gonna explode...

and the fall out... the fall outs gonna

kill all of us.

Do you remember Adam Gregorski,

the FEMA guy who fixed us up in Ireland?

General Harris asked for him to

develop an evacuation strategy.

The Joint Chiefs were seriously

considering it actually.

I've seen the plan, Adam thinks that he can

pull it off, I do too.

So... if we let the comet hit yeah is gonna

be a major catastrophe,

but we can manage it, we can plan for it,

we can save lives. If it breaks up...

Is not going to break up.

Think about what we saw in Ireland. The people,

the places. That was one Tsunami.

We risk creating multiples with this strategy and

their size could totally dwarf Rockall.

I think I've got everything I need right here but

unfortunately I can't do it without you,

so... the Arecibo Conservatory came through,

you were right about having a back-up.

Look at it man, look at it, is smooth which

suggeststhat is fragile.

Yes, well smooth does imply is more likely to

break apart.

Right.

- But hardly definitive.

- Oh come on Josh!

Is Occam's razor, Josh.

All things being equal,

the simplest solution is the right one,

and there's nothing much more simple than this.

We can't fight nature. We've gotta live with it.

General, this report is based on

the latest intelligence we have.

It clearly backs up our worst case scenarios for

the nuclear deflection plan.

Our worse case scenarios? You convinced me

to go with that plan,

you championed it, you're its chief architect.

This is true but there's new evidence now.

The nuclear deflection plan has to be aborted,

Gibden-Bell A must be allowed to land unimpeded.

Why have you changed your mind?

This latest intelligence report and...

the input and...

intuition of one of the finest scientific minds

in the world.

General, NASA is now 100 percent behind

the evacuation option.

The radar images from the Arecibo observatory

have now been...

backed up by new images from the Goldstone

solar system radar in California.

Now, we believe that togetherthey present

sufficient evidence to suggest that...

nuclear deflection runs too great a risk of

fracturing the comet.

You'd see America exposed?

Our infrastructure decimated?

Our way of life immeasurably altered?

The alternative is a world in a kind of chaos that

it will not survive.

America will survive sir, I believe that.

These men are my specialists. General,

I trust them absolutely.

Sir, is it true you were awarded the

Medal of Honour in Vietnam?

Yes.

Have you heard the story of one of yourfellow

Medal winners, Marine Private Jack Lee Lucas?

The name's familiar.

He earned his medal at lwojima aged 17.

Private Lucas was with three other men crawling

through a ravine...

when the Japanese launched a hand grenade attack.

He threw himself on two of the grenades to

save his companions,

the blast blew him into the air, ripped chunks

out of his chest, but he survived.

Lucas didn't ask to be a hero,

he took the shrapnel from those grenades

because...

it was the only thing to do.

America needs to step up and take that hit

because... because it can.

Thas a very nice story Professor, but like you.

I preferto make my decisions based on

the evidence before me.

Gentlemen. Leave me to think this through.

Tonight the North East of America is on the move.

Instead of the widely expected strategy of

nuclear deflection,

the President unveiled a comprehensive

Federal Evacuation Plan,

now 15 US and two Canadian States are

being relocated.

The authorities havejust four weeks to safely

evacuate 100 million people.

Tonight the mass exodus of Washington starts,

with scenes such as this being repeated in towns

and cities all across the Eastern States,

as people living east of the line of separation

flee their homes in their millions.

International support has been described as

"overwhelming".

Ships, aircraft and essential supplies

are being...

directed to the evacuation zone from

around the world.

Navies from Russia, India, Great Britain

and France are...

assisting with the evacuation of

the eastern sea port.

The plan has been hailed as comprehensive in

its application,

...encompassing all aspects of historical and

contemporary existence.

On Liberty Island the rescue programme is underway

for New York's most famous cultural landmark.

Where should we draw the line?

From muzeums to zoos,

thas the question facing officials as

the hours tick by.

Sir, they're suggesting that we re-commission

the bunkerfacility...

in the Greenbriar Hotel in West Virginia.

Forget about Greenbriar, strike it off the list.

Even though they survive the impact...

they'll be crawling into a burning desert,

is no good.

Elephant or Picasso?

Sir?

Triage, which would you save?

Er... you know, aside from human beings,

the elephant is the only other land animal that

actually sheds tears.

Thas very touching Leon but is not true.

Many animals produce tears to lubricate the eye,

it does not imply emotion.

But apart from us the elephants are the only ones

that seem to grieve...

when they lose a family member,

when an elephant walks past the spot where

they lost a loved one...

theyjust stop still.

They mourn their dead.

Across the impact zone... airports, military and

private airfields are...

...working around the clock to maximise

the evacuation.

In the rest of the world flights have ground

...to a halt as national airlines donate theirfle

Military aircraft and cargo carriers are being

adapted to ferry evacuees at unprecedented rates.

More planes are being put in the air in one hour

than are normally undertaken in an entire day.

I've been told that even crop sprayers are being

utilised to help airlift people out...

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